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Dragon Magazine #214 Issue #214 Vol. XIX, No. 9 February 1995 Publisher TSR, Inc. SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS Associate Publisher Brian Thomsen The Complete Half-Elf Greg Jensen Editor-in-Chief 10 Give your half-elf PCs these kits designed specifically Kim Mohan for them. Associate editor Dale A. Donovan Bazaar of the Bizarre Christopher Kutarna 18 Add these elven artifacts to your campaign. Fiction editor Barbara G. Young Dragons Bestiary Norman Abrahamsen 24 Meet the smallest (and furriest) elf-friends of all. Editorial assistant Wolfgang H. Baur Art director FICTION Larry W. Smith Hunter Under the Sun Brent J. Giles Production 94 The pursuit of justice is as relentless as the suns glare. Renee Ciske Tracey Isler Subscriptions REVIEWS Janet L. Winters Role-playing Reviews Rick Swan U.S. advertising 34 Try these alternative fantasy RPGs. Cindy Rick Eye of the Monitor Lester Smith U.K. correspondent 63 Review Les rebuttal to an earlier computer-game review. and U.K. advertising Carolyn Wildman From the Forge Ken Carpenter 112 Join Ken as he explores miniature terrain. DRAGON® Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is published Magazine Marketing, Tavistock Road, West Drayton, monthly by TSR, inc., 201 Sheridan Springs Road, Middlesex UB7 7QE, United Kingdom; telephone: Lake Geneva WI 53147, United States of America. The 0895-444055. postal address for all materials from the United States Subscriptions: Subscription rates via second-class of America and Canada except subscription orders is: mail are as follows: $30 in U.S. funds for 12 issues DRAGON® Magazine, 201 Sheridan Springs Road, sent to an address in the U.S.; $36 in U.S. funds for 12 Lake Geneva WI 53147, U.S.A.; telephone (414) 248- issues sent to an address in Canada; £21 for 12 issues 3625; fax (414) 248-0389. 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Rumblings The staff 43 Read the latest about TSRon TV and movie screens. Ecology of the Neogi Jon Winters 52 This is but the first of two (count em) Ecologies in this issue. Game Wizards Bruce Nesmith 66 Check out these solitaire rules for the SPELLFIRETM game. Lost Empires David Howery 72 Discover a lost land such as Atlantis for your game world. Sage Advice Skip Williams COVER 78 Skip again runs his fine-tooth comb through the AD&D® Alan Pollack's dramatic cover and SPELLFIRE game rules. painting for this issue suggests the valuable spelunker's axiom, "don't go Nasty Tricks Bruce Nesmith exploring caves alone." This is especially true when those caves may be occupied 82 Try these stratagems on your next SPELLFIRE game by the dark elves known as the drow. opponent. Ecology of the Owlbear Johnathan M. Richards 86 Yes! This long-promised article finally makes it into print. DEPARTMENTS 4 Letters 103 Libram X 6 Editorial 106 Dragonmirth 47 Convention Calendar 108 Gamers Guide 68 Forum 120 TSR Previews each subscriber’s copy of the magazine. Changes of Guidelines, c/o DRAGON Magazine, as per the above rights to the contents of this publication are reserved, address for the delivery of subscription copies must be address; include sufficient American postage or and nothing may be reproduced from it in whole or in received at least six weeks prior to the effective date of International Reply Coupons with the return envelope. part without first obtaining permission in writing from the change in order to assure uninterrupted delivery. In Europe, write to: Writers’ Guidelines, c/o DRAGON the publisher. 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